The last few months have been a sort of anomaly for me. The VP of my organization noticed how I hadn’t reached out any more but it was actually a recent theme across other areas of my life. I have not been as active with new ideas, collaboration, and even exercise. I am finding that these moments of apathy are springing out of a fear of scarcity.

If I push this idea forward, not enough people will like it and I’ll be stuck on the outside…

If I collaborate with them, I’ll have to give up my own ideas and be left with them winning the attention of others over me…

If I get up and go to the gym this morning, I’ll be too tired to give my all in other areas…

I may have recently missed the boat on several occasions to seize a moment of opportunity…

Sure the collaboration with that person won’t be the same after that meeting…

Maybe I lost some strength from not going to the gym…

And yet, I must ONLY go. My path is not one of waiting or fear. It is one of action and progress regardless of what is behind me. Even if the tree I start with is 20 years younger than it could have been.